[Cagey]

This story though, is worse than sad, it is pathetic.......

It certainly is. And like the title says, it is the mentality of these idiots that causes things like this to happen. They are so conditioned to that mentality.

I was in Philadelphia for a trade show and two of us were setting up our booth. Booths have been simplified in recent years and it only took us about 20 minutes. The last thing to do was place a light bar on the top of the booth and no sooner did we have the light in our hands, a "union" electrician came by and said it is required in his contract that a union electrician set the light up and plug it in. When we left the show we got the bill for the space rental and there was a $50 dollar electricians fee attached. That was the last time I went to that trade show.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Just another, in a long line of reasons, to stay out of Philadelphia........lol

[KC_Conspirator]

I would say that is unfrigging believeable, but then again its union. I worked for a computer company about a decade ago and we used to get deliveries of equipment at the back of the loading dock everyday. I remember one day we set some equipment on the back dock to be picked up, but it was raining so we moved the equipment back a couple of feet underneath the awning so that it would not get wet. Lo and behold the union morons came by and refused to pick it up because they claimed that the equipment was not in the proper pick up place as stated in the contract. It was literally 2-3 feet from the end of the loading dock.